[ale] Foolish Perl Question

[kkennedy at kenzoid.com (Ken Kennedy)]

On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 03:31:50PM -0500, Tommie M. Jones wrote:
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> >
> 
> This should do it
> $line[7] =~ s/\[font color.*?\]//g;
> 
> . - matches any legal character.
> 
> *? Means nongreedy matching
> 
> Nongreedy matching is used so it will stop at the first ']' instead of the
> last.
> 
> 
> I think this maybe a perl only trick.

Not perl only. Several other regex implementations have non-greedy
matching. Python I know does, for example. Even .NET *hack, thrbff*, I
think... 

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